Archive for the ‘bookmarks’ Category

HAMSoft Engineering: What’s Keeping Me?

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008


What’s Keeping Me? is an application that will locate, quit, relaunch, or kill the problem application that is preventing you from accomplishing a task (empty the Trash, eject a disk, etc…).
HAMSoft Engineering: What’s Keeping Me?

ActionScript 3 Workshop Slides

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

This is a great slideshow on ActionScript 3 development from Grant Skinner.
ActionScript 3 Workshop Slides

The Bicycle Tutor – Bike Repair Video Tutorials

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

I don’t have a bike right, but I used to. I wanted to bookmark this because I do plan on getting bike within the next year.
The Bicycle Tutor – Bike Repair Video Tutorials

Canceling CIC Triple Advantage: Get Your Money Back and Get Justice!

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

I recently had to cancel a recurring transaction that popped up on my bank account. I wanted to make sure that it stopped and that I could get my money back. I found this great article that helped me out:Canceling CIC Triple Advantage: Get Your Money Back and Get Justice!

I have to say that the steps worked out like a charm. I was being charged for 3 months by CIC*Tripple Advantage (ie. Free Credit Report.com). I kepted being persistent but polite and was able to get a full refund.
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goosh.org – the unofficial google shell.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Goosh (Google Shell) is a cool web-app written by Stefan Grothkopp. It’s not an official Google product but does tie into many of functions that Google does provide. All access is done through a command-line interface.

Here is a list of the commands that are available:

  • web – google web search
  • lucky – go directly to first result
  • images – google image search
  • wiki – wikipedia search
  • clear – clear the screen
  • help – displays help text
  • news – google news search
  • blogs – google blog search
  • feeds – google feed search
  • open – open url in new window
  • go – open url
  • more – get more results
  • in – search in a specific website
  • load – load an extension
  • video – google video search
  • read – read feed of url
  • place – google maps search
  • lang – change language
  • addengine – add goosh to firefox search box
  • translate – google translation

Check it out: goosh.org – the unofficial google shell.

Really nice grass text effect in Photoshop

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

PSDTUTS - Photoshop Grass Text Effect

Collis over at PSDTUTS has a really nice tutorial on how to make text with a grass effect in Photoshop. The results are really nice and the process is simple.

Check it out: Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop – PSDTUTS

Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

MSNBC - Spectra Visual Newsreader

This is a really cool use of Flash 9, Papervision 3D, and web cameras. Beautiful data visualization and UI design.

Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com

In2media, Danish advertising agency

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

Here is In2Media, a Danish advertising agency. They do some really nice work. Very similar style to North Kingdom and Big Spaceship.

In2Media

Check it out: In2Media